Pictures of
Jacques Offenbach

French composer
(1814-80)


Offenbach was a French composer, conductor and cellist, with a long career devoted mostly to writing popular music, especially operettas and opéras comiques. Offenbach operettas include: Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underword); La belle Hélène (Fair Helen); and La vie parisienne. Offenbach also wrote one grand opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann).





Jacques Offenbach




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